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The year is 1350 AD. The deadly plague that burst out from the center of Asia came to Europe and stopped the wars for some time. When it reached the Crimean cities where the Genoese people lived it moved on to Istanbul and then made its way to Spain. After devastating Germany, France and England the plague spread to the East and came to the Baltic on board of Hanseatic ships which came close to the borders of Russia.

In the outskirts of Europe lay the lands of Russia and Poland which are ready to finally defeat the dominion of the Golden Horde and the Knight Orders. They will hold on in the battle for freedom and independence, and fight for lands stretching from one sea to the other. The die is cast and a new Empire will become glorious and survive these death-filled times.

Empire: Time of Troubles is a turn-based, historical strategy game which covers the events of 1350-1650 taking place in Russia, Poland and the Great Lithuanian Princedom. The game takes place over a large-scale campaign and players will command one of 26 warring factions. By controlling a hero characters which improve their skills in battle the player can win battles and rule their state any way they wish.

Empire: Time of Troubles allows players to have a well thought-out and historically accurate system of building and assigning labor forces in cities, a large selection of scenario based and random missions, an expansive and realistic technology tree, more than 150 types of military units and beautiful graphics and animations which bring the war to life.

* Large-scale military campaign where the player can turn a small principality into a large and powerful empire.
* 3D strategy map of Eastern Europe from 1350-1650 with authentic landscape and military units.
* 26 factions to control: Russian, Polish and Lithuanian princedoms, lands of the Knight Orders and Eastern European monarchies.
* Political, economic and role playing systems showing the intricacies of diplomacy and wars in medieval Europe.
* Dozens of famous historical personalities and hundreds of game characters, each with their own unique specialties including rulers, commanders, priests, alchemists and spies.

Description

The protagonist of the "Prison Break" game is Company agent Tom Paxton. He is sent to the Fox River State Penitentiary to find out why Michael Scofield (the hero of the TV series), a man without a previous criminal record, became a bank robber. The storyline runs parallel to the first season of "Prison Break": Paxton encounters several characters from the series and experiences key events from his own perspective.

II World War is a cruel part of human history, but it’s also fascinating. Wastelands Interactive decided to make a game that will allow to replay history or try to change it entirely. Thanks to Bitter Glory you will be able to experience on a strategic scale the most dreadful and bloody conflict in history. An advanced political-economic model will allow to take charge of any country and a detailed unit configurator (not seen in II World War games before) with the ability to determine unit’s composition will allow to fine tune any war strategy.

Game’s features:

· timeline: 1933 – 1950+
· real-time game flow, adjustable game speed, active pause
· hexagonal world map based on NASA satellite imaging containing information like terrain type, climate zones, roads, rails and wide economic data – together over 200’000 hexes
· naval units from torpedo boats to battleships
· ability to upgrade existing ships
· ability to decide infantry unit’s composition or use historical templates
· detailed unit constructor for designing vehicles, planes and ships with historical templates
· complex system for calculating units’ attributes
· balanced fight system
· 4-rank land command structure
· complex historic background
· alternate timeline scenarios with probable consequences
· advanced and simple to use diplomatic model
· control over economy adaptable to personal needs
· technological race – detailed technology trees
· capable AI
· multiplayer

 When i started collecting the only think i cared was the casting/model of the car, i wasnt looking at price, date, series, packaging, i was just looking at the car inside, if i liked it i bought it. This wasnt because i didnt care about all those details, it was because i didnt know anything about any of them. I had no idea how many were released or in how many color variations, i didnt know about the value as a casting in the series and most of all i didnt know anything about the packaging of the car.

 Hot Wheels series differ them self besides the price and castings used, by packaging, blisters (the see thru plastic bubble covering the car) and card artwork. As i said in my previous post most of the series released from Hot Wheels, especially the adult collectors series are only released in USA.
The only line that is released all over the world is the regular/mainline release, consisting in approximately 240 + castings per year, split into different series and sub series. Probably to make a difference between the place of making of that specific line, because of laws and politics of a specific country the packaging on these mainlines also differ among them.



 Home of Hot Wheels, US cardboard and artwork for 2012 has the long size card, with the model graphics big above the blister and with the new "Scan or Text" logo  near the pegs hanger on the front, series and year on the bottom of the card and number and name of the casting on the side of the card.

The back of the card has the casting model again , some information about the specific model , like year of release for the real licensed model, designer and so on, followed by the "Scan or Text" application (this application allows you to add the specific model by typing the code given or scan it to a virtual collection on HotWheels.com, making it easier to track your collection), collector number and lastly licensing, copyrights and warnings only in English.




US Cards and Artwork

 International countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica and many other countries besides European countries get about the same artwork on the front of the card, with the same details for the 2012 year, with the only difference being the missing "Scan or Text" logo near the pegs hanger. That application is only available in US.

The back of the card has the biggest change compared to the US one, where the big spot hold by the "Scan or Text" application is now filled with warnings in different languages, Spanish, French, Portuguese and of course English and with a little text that tells you to "Look for All the 2012 Vehicles!". There is no collector number and the space with the information about the car model is now filled with a text on those four languages that tells you, "with a parents permission" to check their site, HotWheels.com.

International Cards and Artwork

European Cards and Artwork